There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data from the British Property Federation,...

A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be “unintended consequences” which will hurt...

An online agency specialising in the sale of investment properties with tenants in situ claims the average time for a tenanted home to sell is just...

A regional lettings agency claims it’s seen a 26 per cent surge in tenant and prospect views on properties listed as being in deposit replacement schemes. East...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now using ‘data-driven’ technology to prioritise...

English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees ban coming into effect in...

East Midlands estate and lettings agency John German has revealed that it’s snapped up an independent based in Derby - Sowter & Brown.  The move increases the...

A lettings market snapshot from Rightmove suggests asking rents in London are now increasing at an annual rate not seen for four years. Compared with this time...

ARLA says it can help agents understand the intricacies of the Tenants Fees Ban, which completed its third reading in the House of Lords yesterday. With the...

Landlords in London are possibly £1,806 worse off since the vote to leave the EU in June 2016, according to specialist lender Landbay. The lender - using...

CGT Lettings Limited has acquired Gloucestershire based residential lettings company All About Property. All About Property has been run by Darren Loftus for the past four years...

Early bird tickets for this year’s ARLA Propertymark Conference, happening just days before the likely introduction of the ban on tenant fees, are now available. Taking place...

Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a deposit alternative service run by...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90 S21 notices this week as...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among the councils to benefit from...

Today’s vote in the House of Commons on Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal deal may be dominating the headlines but it’s the vote in the Lords on...

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing scheme has been breached by...

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a letting agent who appears not to be in any redress scheme, is being investigated by local trading standards officers, and...

The lettings industry has welcomed news that reforms to Universal Credit will include a new online system for private landlords to get rents paid directly to...

A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house building failing to keep pace...

A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi, owns a property in Marston...

The UK’s largest property franchise business, Belvoir Lettings, says it beat its own ambitious target for its franchisees’ Assisted Acquisitions programme in 2018 - but that...

London lettings agency Sterling De Vere must pay a £167,000 fine and compensation of £740 to a renter for a misleading room advertising scam. Tower Hamlets council’s...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee ban.” The new model includes no...

The average UK rental values continued to grow towards the end of last year according to data with the average rent now £921, up 1.5 per cent...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed an external independent complaints reviewer,...

Hunters has announced its first business expansion of 2019 with the acquisition of what it calls “a significant lettings book.” The acquisition of the 279-unit fully managed...

The government has been accused of not helping thousands of landlords who may have inadvertently granted assured tenancies instead of the assured shorthold tenancies they meant...

One of the buy to let sector’s main mortgage lenders, Paragon, has refreshed its range of mortgages with new products which it says are suitable for...

The UK’s largest provider of inventory services says the creation of an MOT certificate system for properties in the rental sector is the next logical step...

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for tourist and Airbnb-style landlords whose...

A lettings agency has agreed to amend its website after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over its use of multiple telephone numbers. The website for...

The Residential Landlords Association’s membership has hit a new high of 35,000.  Established in 1998 the not-for-profit association - which describes itself as Britain’s leading landlord body...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000 a year, and money laundering. The...

The number of people renting a home aged between 35 and 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last three years according to research...

Most buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages are currently cheaper than they were a year ago - some by as much as £29 per month for a typical...

The stamp duty surcharge - which across the rest of Britain is currently three per cent on additional homes such as buy to lets and holiday...

A new property management portal is being launched with the familiar aim of revolutionising the lettings industry - and it will utilise Purplebricks-style “local experts” across...

Zero Deposit, the firm set up by former Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley, says it now has around 850 offices using its product - and it...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding members of tax changes ahead - a timely intervention with the deadline for self-assessment tax returns from landlords...

The latest market snapshot from LSL Property Services once again shows that buy to let investors in northern regions have enjoyed the highest percentage returns, with...

Another online lettings agency launches in March with a claim that it “will streamline and automate the majority of admin tasks for landlords” and create transparency,...

LSL Property Services has acquired LetCo Homes, a lettings and property management specialist based at Whiteley in Hampshire.  LetCo, which operated chiefly in Hampshire and Sussex, was...

Oxfordshire sales and lettings agency Parkers - one of the brands of The Property Franchise Group - has snapped up the managed units run by independent...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a court has called “the negligent...

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated to BTR has signed contracts...

The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are believed not to have informed...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says letting agents must provide value for their landlord clients through technology, transparency and service if they are to survive the coming...

Agents have under three weeks left to respond to the government’s proposals to introduce a Housing Court to settle disputes in the private rental sector. The government...

Agents who want to go the extra mile for their landlord clients may want to point them to assistance for the upcoming self-assessment tax return deadline. HMRC...